7 Nov
2001
7 Nov
'01
9:39 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
It did so, however, at the cost that the resulting
subsystem was a
mite prone to hiccup, which it still is.
False.
It was never fixed, since there really isn't a way
to fix it.
Or because there was nothing to "fix". False. Next...
It's fragile, and the only way to live with that
is to recognize the
vulnerabilities, and to work around them, which is clearly possible.
False.
In 1981, the PC was released, and that was the death
knell for
computers like the Apple. Even so, they hung on for several years.
Even devoted Apple][ fans, though, have, for the most part, sobered up
enough since the '80's to recognize that the Apple floppy disk
subsystem wasn't as solid as one might have hoped.
False. One individual's beliefs do not reality make. Your experiences
were not shared by even one one-hundreth of one-tenth of one percent of
the total of Apple ][ users, evidenced by the fact that MILLIONS of Apple
disk drives (and clones) were produced. Obviosuly, then, it was
realiable.
Your experiences, however, are not.
In the 8-9 years that I used 8" drives as my main
medium for data
interchange, I had perhaps two or three diskette failures that I
remember, and I don' think many others had more trouble than I did.
That is not what I read and heard about the Apple disk subsystem.
References? ISBN or volume and issue number and page number please.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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